The minimum wage is in the focus of the business community, but also the entire public, and the consequences of the FBiH Government’s decision were commented on by Kemal Kozarić, a professor at the Faculty of Economics.
Kozarić emphasized that the salary of 1,000 KM should have been paid to BiH a long time ago. reality.
First effects
– On that side, we all agree that it is useful for the employees and they deserve it, especially those employees who had less than that amount. It is not good that it was done on the last day of the business year, without an analysis that would recognize the effects, after application. January is coming to an end, which means that we will have the first effects in February – said Kozarić.
The former governor of the Central Bank and Minister of Finance in KS emphasizes that the business community was unprepared for such a decision, with the fact that the entire implementation process has just been transferred to the business community.
Everyone is looking at it from their own point of view
– The government had to find a way to include the business community as a partner, because after all, employers are the ones who hire, and pay salaries, pay taxes, contributions and in some way should be partners with the government.
It is not good for the government to be on one, employers on another, trade unionists on the third, and analysts on the fourth. There are a lot of these interest groups, which look at all this from their point of view.
We can also interpret the decision as the fact that the FBiH Government has helped itself, because we have seen that, according to some analyses, additional taxes and contributions will amount to 500 to 800 million marks, which will end up in the budget.
In my opinion, it would be good and realistic and fair to create a balance in some way and to share the burden – said Kozarić, in an interview with TVSA.
